THE FUTURIST! loves the musical fantasy sequences from this film. It shows a time when Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers films packed people into movie houses to flee from a bleak reality for a couple of hours. The movie is quite sad and not very optimistic (the television show was even more depressing). Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters play the main characters whose lives become more fantasy driven as they descend into terribly dire circumstances. This story involved simple plodding Depression era people, a music sheet salesman and a plain school teacher, who escape from their banal boring and financially poor existences into the fantasy of song and dance. In 1981, director Herbert Ross turned the British television dramatic mini-series PENNIES FROM HEAVEN, by Dennis Potter, into a Hollywood motion picture. WE wish we could float away on a light billowy cloud of optimistic gleeful fantasy. Very often we wish to escape the humdrum, the sadness and the pain of life. On immediate sight of the flying fowl poking into his side dish, he screamed like a woman. THE FUTURIST! suffered a panic attack when a large seagull fluttered down to investigate his french fries. Recently, he and haiku stopped at a roadside Fast Food establishment for lunch and ate outside.
To this day, THE FUTURIST! cannot abide seagulls. it was a large tern or seagull who pecked at him for minutes on end until the Shore Patrol found him. THE FUTURIST!'s first encounter with a Thanksgiving fowl was not with a turkey. She then, while mumbling something about a husband of dubious birth, decided to take a cold dip in the sea and never came back. Well, it appears that Aunt Abigail, on her way back from her leisurely walk with THE BABY FUTURIST! to the Seaside Liquor Store for the holiday libations, became a bit infatuated with her purchases and partook of a 6 pack of an inferior beer and a bottle of Riesling. How did this happen? A baby left alone in the sand? After claiming to not have an adequate white wine for the repast, THE FUTURIST!'s parents allowed Aunt Abigail to take THE BABY FUTURIST! for a stroll on the desolate beach on her way to the local liquor emporium.
THE FUTURIST!'s parents had gone to Aunt Abigail's beach front home for the Thanksgiving holiday.
THE FUTURIST! must hold back his tears remembering a Thanksgiving many years ago when he was inadvertedly left behind on a cold windy cloudy November day on the NJ Shore by his Aunt Abigail.
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